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TIL Most Americans Believe Crime in U.S. Is Worsening, Despite a sharp decline since the mid-1990s

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BrxAd TIL Linkin Park were due to be called Lincoln Park ( a park in Los Angeles, CA near where they rehearsed), but the domain www.lincolnpark.com was too expensive. They shorted it to 'Linkin' so the band would appear right next to Limp Bizkit at record stores.
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.
d80EQ TIL about Marinos Mitralexis, a Greek WW2 pilot who downed an Italian bomber by ramming when out of ammo, made an emergency landing and arrested the surviving bomber crew with his pistol.
j6V4n TIL Humans consume the equivalent of a credit card worth of plastic every week: Report
R79gw TIL the Japan Times ran an article in 2010 predicting (seemingly accurately) the rise in popularity of thick thighs